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Chirality is considered by many scientists to be mainly a geometric concept. There exists also a physical aspect of chirality which is largely being overlooked at. Two examples of mechanical devices are introduced here that represent…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilat

Chirality refers to the property that an object and its mirror image cannot overlap each other by spatial rotation and translation, and can be found in various research fields. We here propose chiral chaos and construct a chiral chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Yun-Qiu Ge , Zhe Wang , Qian-Chuan Zhao , Jing Zhang , Yu-xi Liu

In this paper we consider cases of existence of invariant measure, additional first integrals, and Poisson structure in a problem of rigid body's rolling without sliding on plane and sphere. The problem of rigid body's motion on plane was…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Borisov , I. S. Mamaev

Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to…

Physical systems with symmetry arise abundantly in applications, and are endowed with interesting mathematical structures. The present paper focusses on linear reciprocal and input-output Hamiltonian systems. Their characterization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Arjan van der Schaft , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Tom Chaffey

When a solid body floats at the interface of a vibrating liquid bath, the relative motion between the object and interface generates outwardly propagating surface waves. It has recently been demonstrated that millimetric objects with…

We present the first comprehensive experimental and numerical study featuring the turbulent wake of the fluidic pinball for a large actuation range. The fluidic pinball is a cluster of three equal circular cylinders centered on the vertices…

In this paper, the dynamics of nonholonomic systems on Lie groups with a left-invariant kinetic energy and left-invariant constraints are considered. Equations of motion form a closed system of differential equations on the corresponding…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-09-04 Valery V. Kozlov

A geometric analysis of the Shake and Rattle methods for constrained Hamiltonian problems is carried out. The study reveals the underlying differential geometric foundation of the two methods, and the exact relation between them. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Robert I. McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier , Matt Wilkins

Chiral fluids - such as fluids under rotation or a magnetic field as well as synthetic and biological active fluids - flow in a different way than ordinary ones. Due to symmetries broken at the microscopic level, chiral fluids may have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Tali Khain , Michel Fruchart , Colin Scheibner , Thomas A. Witten , Vincenzo Vitelli

This article expands for spinor fields the recently developed Dynamical Bridge formalism which relates a linear dynamics in a curved space to a nonlinear dynamics in Minkowski space. Astonishingly, this leads to a new geometrical mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Eduardo Bittencourt , Sofiane Faci , Mário Novello

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

A non-Hermitian PT-symmetric version of the kicked top is introduced to study the interplay of quantum chaos with balanced loss and gain. The classical dynamics arising from the quantum dynamics of the angular momentum expectation values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Steve Mudute-Ndumbe , Eva-Maria Graefe

The space missions designed to visit small bodies of the Solar System boosted the study of the dynamics around non-spherical bodies. In this vein, we study the dynamics around a class of objects classified by us as Non-Spherical Symmetric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 G. Madeira , S. M. Giuliatti Winter , T. Ribeiro , O. C. Winter

The Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Model (HM) is investigated using a block-spin renormalization approach on Kagome and triangular lattices. In both cases, after coarse graining the triangles on original lattice and truncation of the Hilbert space to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Subrahmanyam

The relativistic spinning particle model, proposed in [3,4], is analyzed in a Hamiltonian framework. The spin is simulated by extending the configuration space by introducing a light-like four vector degree of freedom. The model is heavily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh

Spatially homogeneous cosmological models reduce to Hamiltonian systems in a low dimensional Minkowskian space moving on the total energy shell $H=0$. Close to the initial singularity some models (those of Bianchi type VIII and IX) can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Graham

We study in this work the 2D dynamics of an experimental system of disk-shaped rotors, fluidized by turbulent upflow. Contrary to previous knowledge, our experiments show the same particle chiral geometry can produce flows with different…

The metriplectic formalism couples Poisson brackets of the Hamiltonian description with metric brackets for describing systems with both Hamiltonian and dissipative components. The construction builds in asymptotic convergence to a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Massimo Materassi , Philip J. Morrison

Rotation of atoms in a lattice is studied using a Hubbard model. It is found that the atoms are still contained in the trap even when the rotation frequency is larger than the trapping frequency. This is very different from the behavior in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Wang , S. Yelin